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Land Ahoy! (a very short animation)

ithinkitsnice — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:46:40 +0000

Land Ahoy! is a very short animation that started out as an experiment in 2.5D video in After Effects. I was so pleased with how it turned out that I took what was initially just a bobbing boat and gave it a bit more polish and some semblance of narrative (not a lot though).

All of the images are made from cut-out paper which was scanned and coloured in Photoshop.

The music is ‘The Trumpet Hornpipe‘, performed and released by Stuart Eydmann under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland License (the rest is ©2010 ithinkitsnice). My thanks to Stuart for sharing this.

You simply must go to Youtube to see it in 720p HD which is a hell of a lot prettier.

Some packshots of Lovespirals’ new album, ‘Future Past’

ithinkitsnice — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:11:32 +0000

Anji Bee of Lovespirals has just posted up some of the first shots of their new 100% recycled digipack CD album, Future Past. I’ll add some of my own as soon as my copy arrives in the post.

Blu Mar Ten album and artwork get a mention in the London Metro

ithinkitsnice — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:59:07 +0000

Courtesy someone’s cameraphone via Chris Blu Mar Ten’s Twitter.

Artwork for the new Lovespirals album, ‘Future Past’

ithinkitsnice — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:34:17 +0000

I just (actually last week) delivered the artwork for Californian ‘dreamy electro-acoustic indie pop’ band Lovespirals‘ fourth studio Album, entitled Future Past.

The artwork for the 6-panel digipack is made up from a mixture of hand rendered and digital type set alongside the photography of Susan Jennings.

Eco-friendly Lovespirals naturally insisted on green (not just the colour) packaging; the digipack is printed on 100% recycled stock with 100% recycled plastic trays, printed with vegetable-based inks and coated with water-based biodegradable varnishes, provided by Groove House Manufacturing in California.

Packshots as soon as I get the finished article.

Video titles for Blu Mar Ten’s ‘Natural History’ Youtube album preview (updated)

ithinkitsnice — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:14:35 +0000

I’ve just made these video titles for Blu Mar Ten’s Youtube album preview, including a little non-narrative montage of some of the album artwork. It’s based on a full video promo for one of the tracks which is in progress now and should be coming in the next few weeks.

Now I’ve got about a week’s worth of A drawing A Day to catch up on…

Update 27/10/09

I’ve just been informed by Chris Blu Mar Ten that this video has received 2 ‘Honors’ on YouTube; one for being the the 75th most viewed in the United Kingdom and, perhaps bizarrely, another being the 81st most viewed music video in Russia. I’m not entirely sure what to make of that — and it’s all down to Blu Mar Ten’s popularity, make no mistake — but I think that’s good going. It’s certainly received over 1200 views in under 48 hours. I’m happy with that.

Shielagh Tacey Hand Woven Textiles featured on LG blog

ithinkitsnice — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:18:49 +0000

Shielagh Tacey Hand Woven Textiles, whose logo and website I designed, was featured on the LG blog today:

“On the hunt for lovely and original gifts I stumbled across Shielagh Tacey, an artist and designer living and working in Glasgow, Scotland who makes unique hand woven textile products using a traditional wooden floor loom.

Her products range from cushions to scarves to iPod covers. According to her site everything she produces is a unique, one-off item and she also makes items to customers particular requirements.”

Visit the site by clicking below.